Budget 2025-26: Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership
We need to save around £21m over the next three years.
Each year, we must set a balanced health and social care budget to provide the services people need within the money we have available. As our population is living longer with more complex care needs, we are experiencing rising demand for services. The cost of running these services is also increasing due to inflation. We want to hear your views on what we can do to meet our budget gap.
If you have any questions, please contact: HSCPComms@falkirk.gov.uk
Phases
Consultation
Overview
Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership, through its Board, plans our local community services. This includes social work, care at home, mental health, general practice, learning disability support, district nursing, and alcohol and drug support services – plus many more.
We are responsible for managing the yearly budget, currently worth over £300m, to fund services from Falkirk Council, NHS Forth Valley, local organisations, and community groups.
As a result of rising costs, increased demand, and people living longer with more complex care needs, we are now forecasting a £21m budget gap over the next three financial years (2025/26 - 2027/28). This means we must adapt services, change the way we work, and secure best value for money to ensure services can continue to operate into the future.
Take part
This consultation shows you a short summary of the proposals to help balance our budget.
Your views will help inform the decisions made by members of our Integration Joint Board when it finalises our health and social care budget in March 2025.
Our proposals
Our survey asks for your views on proposals which have been grouped into three themes:
- Doing things differently: Redesigning services, efficiency measures or using technology to deliver services more efficiently.
- Raising money: Through increasing existing charges or introducing charges for some services.
- Doing less: Reducing or stopping some services if appropriate alternatives are available, or they are no longer the most suitable or economical way to provide support.
We are also gathering views on new eligibility criteria, which outlines under what circumstances we will provide care, and what level of care is available.
Where relevant, staff and union colleagues have been notified of these proposals and will continue to be engaged throughout any future steps.
All questions are optional, you can respond to as many or as few of the proposals as you wish.
Upcoming and ongoing events
Past events
Event date: February 11th, 2025 from 14:00 to 16:00.
Denny Library
2 registrants
Event date: February 7th, 2025 from 10:00 to 12:00.
Grangemouth Library
2 registrants
Event date: January 28th, 2025 from 10:00 to 12:00.
Larbert Library